novelraw Chapter 524: Reversal
Chapter 524: Reversal
Chapter 524: Reversal
Jie Ming’s fist did indeed disintegrate, but his attack and destructive power were not “ruled invalid”!
The crumbling arm still carried devastating energy as it smashed forward. Even the shattered fist could instantly reassemble, as if his “attack” itself had become a continuous process that could not be overwritten by a single “outcome”!
“This guy…”
The black-robed wizard had no time to think further. Jie Ming’s fourth punch, wrapped in even more intense dark golden light, slammed down like a pile driver onto the invisible barrier already covered in cracks!
Boom!!!
Amid the deafening energy explosion, the absolute defense constructed by the [Imaginary] Law—which in theory could withstand direct attacks from the vast majority of sixth-ring wizards—shattered under Jie Ming’s relentless, increasingly powerful barrage of furious punches!
The dark golden fist edge, carrying the residual destructive force after breaking through the barrier, smashed solidly into the black-robed wizard’s left cheek!
“Puff!”
The black-robed wizard’s head snapped backward at an unnatural angle as if struck head-on by a siege ram!
Half his cheek and lower jaw instantly exploded into pieces under the punch that carried the extreme destructive power of the Trigram Fire Annihilation Divine Light!
Blood and energy residue sprayed outward!
His body lost control for the first time in this battle.
Like a ragged sack, he was blasted backward by the immense force, plowing a deep trench hundreds of meters long across the ground before barely coming to a stop.
The black-robed wizard… was injured.
For the first time since the battle began, he had truly taken damage.
Jie Ming did not pursue immediately.
He hovered in place, lowering his head to look at his right arm—the one that had just delivered that decisive strike.
The light around the entire arm had dimmed by at least thirty percent. In some areas, the dark golden “skin” had even turned semi-transparent and ethereal, faintly revealing the turbulent energy vortices flowing within.
“Huff…” He exhaled softly. “There is still a gap between theory and practice. Quite a few conflicts remain in actual operation…”
Inside his body, the cross-spatial energy transmission system that had been on standby in the inner world instantly switched modes.
The seventh-rank large-scale elemental pool from the Infernal Sulfur plane, through the Incense Fire Divine Dao, poured vast amounts of pure elemental energy across the void into Jie Ming’s body without interruption.
This energy was then rapidly converted into the destructive power required by the Trigram Fire Annihilation Divine Light via the Return to Ruins Armor energy convergence module within the Light God Transformation framework.
The dimmed arm solidified again at a visible rate. The ethereal regions were filled by stable energy flows, and the dark golden luster gradually restored to its original state.
Jie Ming clenched his fist, feeling power once again flood his body.
At the same time, in this brief pause, he used the Causal Trace Shadow Technique to precisely manipulate his “self-information,” rapidly adjusting and repairing the few minor structural conflicts caused by the extreme output earlier.
“Done.”
He raised his eyes again, looking toward the figure slowly rising from the rubble pit in the distance.
The black-robed wizard lifted his hand and touched the ruined half of his face.
Half his head had completely vanished, leaving only a bloody, mangled wound.
In the next instant, like skipped frames in a video, his entire head refreshed.
Bones realigned, flesh regenerated, skin healed, and even the bloodstains that had splattered onto his collar vanished into thin air.
He returned to his original appearance, but his face was terrifyingly gloomy.
Jie Ming gave him no more time to catch his breath.
The dark golden figure charged forward once again at the speed of light.
This time, the black-robed wizard no longer defended passively.
A fierce glint flashed in his eyes. Instead of retreating, he advanced to meet the charge head-on!
[Imaginary]— “In this exchange, the enemy’s point of contact collapses and disintegrates!”
The outcome was defined.
Fists collided.
The invisible power of the Law clashed directly with the dark golden destructive energy. The resulting shockwave scraped three feet of ground clean across several thousand meters around them!
Jie Ming’s fist disintegrated without suspense the moment of contact.
Energy fragments scattered in all directions as his entire hand and half his forearm turned into nothingness.
However, just as the black-robed wizard thought this exchange would end with the opponent once again “sacrificing an arm to survive”…
Jie Ming’s already disintegrated remnant arm, along with the bare stump of his wrist that had yet to reassemble, remained firmly pressed against his fist as if rooted in place!
The sharp, blade-like energy turbulence at the crumbling edge even left several fine cuts on the surface of his fist!
Even more terrifyingly, Jie Ming’s other fist had already slammed unobstructed toward his face!
Shock and rage surged in the black-robed wizard. He forcibly mobilized his remaining quota and, at the final instant, “defined” the result of “his own arm completing a defensive posture”!
Puff!
Jie Ming’s left fist shattered the black-robed wizard’s hastily raised right arm!
Dark red flesh and Law fragments exploded within the dark golden light!
The black-robed wizard was sent flying backward once again.
Meanwhile, Jie Ming’s shattered right fist, during the process of his opponent’s retreat, rewound like time flowing backward. The fragments rolled back, reassembled, and reformed into a complete fist edge.
The black-robed wizard stabilized his stance and looked at his ruined right arm. The shock in his eyes could no longer be suppressed.
He was all too familiar with this pattern.
During his earlier clashes with Jie Ming, the opponent had relied on this exact tactic—“using a disintegrating arm to tank the attack in exchange for a counterattack opportunity.” Bit by bit, he had adapted to the power of [Imaginary], eventually evolving from “collapsing with one strike” to “barely able to endure.”
But now, the same tactic produced vastly different results!
Back then, Jie Ming’s disintegrated arm could at most serve as a “shield” to absorb damage and buy him time to escape.
Now, this disintegrated arm could still inflict real, substantial damage on him!
But… why?
Why could an elementalized body still retain this characteristic?!
He stared fixedly at Jie Ming’s dark golden body. The probing properties of the [Imaginary] Law were fully activated as he frantically analyzed its secrets.
Then, he sensed it.
Deep within that body formed from Trigram Fire Annihilation Divine Light existed a… core.
It was not an energy core, nor a soul core.
It was a highly compressed, heavily encrypted information-state existence—that was Jie Ming’s true self!
His physical body, his soul, everything about him had been compressed into that cluster of information.
The terrifyingly powerful dark golden body outside was essentially nothing more than the “outer garment” worn by that information cluster!
A deduction flashed through his mind like lightning:
This meant that every attack from the current body was not merely an energy strike from the Trigram Fire Annihilation Divine Light, but a “complete projection” of Jie Ming’s full strength—including the monstrous physical power of his body, which had evolved countless times and could now resist the erosion of the [Imaginary] Law—transformed through this “energy outer garment”!
In other words, this guy’s current state still possessed extremely strong resistance against his Law!
Meanwhile, Jie Ming stood quietly several hundred meters away, gazing at him.
Within those dark golden, vortex-like pupils was clear satisfaction at having accomplished his intended goal.
This was the most special aspect of the Light God Transformation system: although the body appeared elementalized, it still inherited all the characteristics of his original physical body through information loading.
The most important of these was naturally the various resistances forged through body tempering methods!!
Thus, at this moment, he was both the embodiment of the Trigram Fire Annihilation Divine Light’s destructive energy and still the same Jie Ming who had traded blows with the black-robed wizard for ten minutes, growing stronger with every disintegration.
Energy and flesh.
Destruction and tenacity.
He had merged them into one.
The black-robed wizard finally understood.
The source of his danger premonition.
Every inch of flesh the young man had lost earlier had been a stepping stone toward evolution. Every brush with death had been preparation for this counter-kill.
Jie Ming slowly clenched his fist, feeling the surging power transmitted from this body that perfectly fused “destruction” and “resistance.”
He looked at the black-robed wizard, his voice calm yet carrying long-suppressed sharpness:
“Sorry to keep you waiting.”
“Now, it’s my turn to attack.”